The 2023 Bassmaster Elite Series finished up the season with a bang with the Minn Kota Bassmaster Elite at St. Lawrence River. As predicted, records were broken as four anglers reached the century mark with all smallmouth bass.
Fantasy Fishing proved to be a bit more tricky than usual at the St. Lawrence River as a number of Elite anglers that have a history of success on this famed body of water oddly struggled this time around.
Let’s get into the best and worst Fantasy picks.
The overall winner of the Minn Kota Bassmaster Elite at St. Lawrence River was (“MPDSRD”), who selected two of the five picks that would have made up the perfect roster. Overall Rank: No. 1, Total Points 1,369.
BUCKET A: Kyoya Fujita
BUCKET B: Kenta Kimura
BUCKET C: Taku Ito
BUCKET D: Chris Zaldain
BUCKET E: Josh Douglas
The perfect Fantasy Fishing roster for the 2023 Minn Kota Bassmaster Elite at St. Lawrence River would have been:
BUCKET A: Patrick Walters
BUCKET B: Kenta Kimura
BUCKET C: Taku Ito
BUCKET D: Matty Wong
BUCKET E: Clent Davis
Total: 1,406
BUCKET A: WALTERS
Patrick Walters – 310 points/4.0%
Second best selection: Kyoya Fujita – 290 points/13.8%
Lowest scoring angler: Hunter Shryock – 97 points/0.4%
BUCKET B: KIMURA
Kenta Kimura – 312 points/1.2%
Second best selection: Chris Johnston – 295 points/36.3%
Lowest scoring angler: Clifford Pirch –75 points/0.2%
BUCKET C: ITO
Taku Ito – 285 points/37.4%
Second best selection: Scott Martin – 260 points/1.8%%
Lowest scoring angler: Mark Menendez – 77 points/0.1%
BUCKET D: WONG
Matty Wong – 264 points/2.7%
Second best selection: Chris Zaldain – 251 points/19.2%
Lowest scoring angler: Brad Whatley – 91 points/0.2%
BUCKET E: DAVIS
Clent Davis – 268 points/14.1%
Second best selection: Josh Douglas – 231 points/12.5%
Lowest scoring angler: Keith Poche – 71 points/1.6%
